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    A Study Guide for Adrienne Su's "Peaches"
    A Study Guide for Adrienne Su's "Peaches"
    A Study Guide for Adrienne Su's "Peaches"
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    A Study Guide for Adrienne Su's "Peaches"

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    A Study Guide for Adrienne Su's "Peaches", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJan 18, 2018
    ISBN9781535845762
    A Study Guide for Adrienne Su's "Peaches"

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      A Study Guide for Adrienne Su's "Peaches" - Gale

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      Peaches

      Adrienne Su

      2015

      Introduction

      Adrienne Su's Peaches, first published in 2015 on the Academy of American Poets online Poem-a-Day series, recounts the speaker's memories of eating peaches with her Chinese American family at her childhood home in Georgia. Through the hard work of her parents, who immigrated to the United States from China, the speaker and her siblings have never known hunger. When asked by strangers where she is from, the speaker likes to imagine answering that she, like the peach, is Chinese American. Peaches, like the speaker's family, originated in China but have become an American favorite. Written in conversational free verse, Peaches is at once accessible and sweet, as the speaker weighs her identity against the words of strangers and the love of her family.

      Author Biography

      Su was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 10, 1967. She began to write at an early age, sending her work out for publication while still in high school. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, as a child she did not speak Chinese but was captivated instead by the study of Latin. She earned her bachelor's degree from Harvard University and then attended the University of Virginia, where she earned her master of fine arts degree. Her mentors at Virginia included the award-winning poets Rita Dove, Charles Wright, and Gregory Oor.

      During the 1990s revival of slam poetry, Su performed frequently at the Nuyorican Poets Caféand competed in national competition with the New York City team in 1991. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship in Poetry and a Pushcart Prize, as well as

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